The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?